Junior Omand Ballboy, Player and President of Queen's Park Fc

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THERE USED to be a popular history series in the USA, which bore the challenging title From Log Cabin To White House. It seemed to be very apposite in any description of the career of Junior Omand.

An early photograph shows him as a tea boy aged about 10 and within a matter of two years he had risen to the rank of chief ballboy. There followed a distinguished playing career of some 10 years and in the fullness of time he became president of Queen's Park Football Club.

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Junior Omand Ballboy, Player and President of Queen's Park Fc

Junior was, in the biblical phrase, "numbered among the elect" and he belonged to that handful of men who in the late twentieth century could compete with the best that Scottish professional football could provide and Scottish professional football was p...

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